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1) The wreckers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the English coastal town where they are stranded.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on humans involving the transfer of animal genes.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While trying to care for a group of abandoned young children, five Australian teenagers continue their struggle for survival and their resistance against the enemy invading their homeland.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness.
6) Life of Pi
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
An unexplainable plane crash kills the family of a crime reporter. A year later he meets a woman who claims to have survived the crash and holds the possibility of a secret, but she disappears. He searches for answers and runs into a powerful and shadowy organization.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
After the massacre Hardy and Betty Sue were left with only a horse and a knife with which to face the long battle against the wilderness. A seven-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl, stranded on the limitless prairie. They were up against starvation, marauding Indians, savage outlaws, and wild animals. They were mighty stubborn, but the odds were against them-and their luck was about to run out.
9) Lost horizon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While attempting to escape a civil war, four people are kidnapped and transported to the Tibetan mountains. After their plane crashes, they are found by a mysterious Chinese man. He leads them to a monastery...a land of mystery and matchless beauty where life is lived in tranquil wonder, beyond the grasp of a doomed world. It is here, in Shangri-La, where destinies will be discovered and the meaning of paradise will be unveiled." --Cover
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set during the height of the Russian Revolution and told in alternating voices, sixteen-year-old Evgenia--a peasant and proud member of the Bolshevik party--agrees to help a seventeen-year-old bourgeois girl traverse the war-torn countryside in search of safety, but Anna is harboring a secret that could cost them their lives. Includes historical note and author's note.
12) Walkabout
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
"A plane crashes in the vast Northern Territory of Australia, and the only survivors are two children from Charleston, South Carolina, on their way to visit their uncle in Adelaide. Mary and her younger brother, Peter, set out on foot, lost in the vast, hot Australian outback. They are saved by a chance meeting with an unnamed Aboriginal boy on walkabout. He looks after the two strange white children and shows them how to find food and water in the...
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